Dr. Paul Smerz

Welcome

Thank you for vising my web site. I am delighted that you are considering working with me. I invite you to seek more information about my work by contacting me or by exploring the information on the pages of this website. My website is offered as assistance to anyone who wants to better understand psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, couples therapy and marital counseling.

The Inner Journey

Welcome. I am a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with over 25 years of clinical experience. While my training as a clinical psychologist has enabled me to identify, understand and work with many individuals and problems, my training has been deepened through my intensive study in the depth psychology that is commonly known as Jungian analysis, developed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. While Jung himself drew from other psychologists and urged therapists to match the treatment to the individual, his own contribution was in understanding what people were trying to work through unconsciously and accomplish in their psychological problems. Jung also suggested that as we understand how best to fulfill our own personal, individual nature, becoming more authentic and whole, our psychological struggles take on meaning and suffering is diminished. Jung’s view of the uniqueness of each person compels me much more than the “clinical” psychology of our time with is often pathology-oriented, “solution-focused,” and insurance-“managed.”